Hello NYC Kubernauts!

We are happy to announce the July New York City Kubernetes Meetup (#NYCk8s) will be on Wednesday, June 13th at the YellowHammer offices in the NoMad. 

We're very excited to have Barak Michener, Lead Engineer of Torus speak. He will talk about Torus, a new distributed storage prototype from CoreOS, and demo how it works with Kubernetes pods and the FlexVolume plugin.

Agenda: 
6:30 - 7:00 - Social 
7:00 - 7:45 - Barak Michener, Torus: Modern Storage on Kubernetes 
7:45 - 8:30 - Christopher Liljenstolpe (Founder & CTO at Tigera)
8:30 - 9:00 - Social / Wrap-up

Bios

Barak previously worked at Google through the acquisition of Metaweb. At Metaweb he focused on the graph database behind freebase.com. This led to his side project as lead maintainer of Cayley, an open source graph database. While at Google he worked on structured search using structured data to improve Google Search after some time focusing on music research and multi-model machine learning algorithms. He lives in Berkeley, near his alma mater and favorite part of the bay. You can follow Barak on Twitter @barakmich.

Bio on Christopher is forthcoming. 

Location/Instructions: 
Our friends at YellowHammer have once again offered to provide space for this upcoming event. The address is:

44 W 28th St 
4th Floor 
New York, NY 10001

The building is on the south side of the street between Avenue of the Americas and Broadway. 

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Cheers,

Ariel